Christmas Eve

[poliphilo]

1. We've treated ourselves to a Scrabble set.this Christmas. A sign of advancing age, I guess- wanting  to play board games.  I haven't played in 20 years, but it's like riding a bicycle, innit? On one of my turns I used all the letters in my rack and copped the 50 point bonus. Tee-hee! The word I scored with was DANGEROUS.

2. I've borrowed Joe's Hair CD. Turns out it's the soundtrack of the not very good Milos Forman film. Ah well, it'll do. Now to relive my youth!

3. We watched a documentary about Piaf last night. She was another like Lautrec who drove herself into an early grave with all the fun she had. Menandboozeandpills. And workworkwork. She signed off at 48 whereas Lautrec only got to 36. This particular film must have been made with the US market in mind because it gave far too much time to her transatlantic career. Did you know that at her peak only Sinatra and Crosby were selling more records? But  that's irrelevant. Piaf is Paris as Paris is Piaf. Her rather sweet, little, final husband drove her corpse up over night from the South of France so that the legend could be rounded off with the fiction that she'd died in her native city.

4. Thank you for the mistletoe, mam_adar

Comments

Hair!

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

I liked THAT film! - especially the 'Good Morning Starshine' bit in the car in the dessert. I still sign that song to my cat in the mornings.
I saw the original production in New York. Its hard to believe how 'shocked' everyone was by the NUDE scene; its even harder to believe that Treat Williams is now playing a middle class brain surgeon who moves his family to Colarado - on TV! - yet.
More painful to consider is that after all the effort to stop that awfull war, the thugs who run the US of A have now involved not only themselves but all of Europe in their immoral adventure in Iraq.
Will they never learn. Now who said? - Pete Seeger I think.

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

My first real exposure to Piaf was Saving Private Ryan. How's that for stereotypically American - getting my culture through Hollywood? But I promptly compiled a collection of her songs. She has a sweet melancholy in her voice, all the more so because I don't speak French. Somehow, not knowing what she's singing lyrically makes the emotion behind it more evident.

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Merry Christmas!

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have the BIGGEST craving for a good game of Clue right about now!